/lit/ - Literature

>>23051257
If women are more emotionally intelligent, how come all the greatest phenomenologists whether eastern or western are men

Guys I'm pretty autistic and I don't fully understand his views on the body-subject and its world (I read Copleston's chapter on him). Can someone break it down, please

>In b4 "filtered by Copleston"

>>17545860
>Reflection isn't a distinct thing separate from experience.
Yeah, reflecting on past experience is separate from the perception of phenomena. The experience of reflection is distinct from the experience of phenomena in the world

>>17075678
>why is language so inherently ambiguous?
The real question should be “why is perception inherently ambiguous?”
Ambiguity lies coiled at the heart of the world like a snake, and is a fundamental part of human existence. Merleau-Ponty does a great job at writing about the ambiguity of signification. Jean Baudrillard’s work deals largely with how we’ve tried to banish the ambiguity that sits are the center of it all.
This is one of my favorite problems of philosophy, one of my favorite things to talk about.
>could we live without it?
We’ve been trying and failing to do just that for some time now

>>16978146
>Scientific points of view are always both naïve and at the same time dishonest, because they take for granted without explicitly mentioning it, that other point of view, namely that of the consciousness, through which from the outset a world forms itself around me and begins to exist for me.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Phenomenology of Perception